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by Faith Quackenbush (Author)Where the Stars Still BurnIn Where the Stars Still Burn, the light of the human experience shines through the darkness, exploring the quiet beauty and the haunting complexities of life. This collection of poems captures fleeting moments-an unspoken word, a fleeting glance, a heartbeat-woven with themes of nature, love, loss, and the transformative power of memory.From the fire of spider lilies blooming in the night to the stormy depths of gray eyes that hold centu...

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by Jennifer Burrell (Author) Number of Pages: 72 Dimensions: 0.15 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN Publication Date: February 28, 2025

The Figure Going Imaginary: Life Drawing, Poetry, the Cadaver Lab; A Year in Pieces - Paperback

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by Marianne Boruch (Author)Exploring drawing, fate, and the mysterious human body, Boruch embarks on a journey of dark wonder in The Figure Going Imaginary.Marianne Boruch embarks on a journey of dark wonder in The Figure Going Imaginary. A gathering of journal entries, lyrical prose, poetry, and sketches from the author's "Life Drawing" notebook, this hybrid collection recounts the unnerving and otherworldly experience of studying Gross Human Anatomy and life-drawing at Purdue University--an...

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by Danielle Larson (Author)In this electrifying collection of twenty-one poems, authenticity clashes with expectation as the author navigates modern life with unflinching honesty. From digital-age anxiety to generational trauma, these verses capture the millennial experience through structured sonnets, playful haiku, and social media-inspired pieces. The collection celebrates being "too much" in a world that demands less-embracing what it means to live boldly and unapologetically. Number of P...

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by Cal Bedient (Author)The brutality of both public and private experience finds reckoning in these intricate and majestic new poems.Candy Necklace ushers an intense new voice onto the field of American poetry. Lush and turbulent, the poems collected here expose the violence underlying all acts of union and creation, a violence for which poetry might be a redemptive language but in which language itself is always implicated. Cal Bedient explores a wide range of familiar emotional landscapes -...

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by Grace E. Kelley (Author)Daughter of Breath is a timely voice calling those lost in the wilderness created by church-sponsored patriarchy, misogyny, and queer phobia, to grieve, heal, and reclaim their authentic voices. Born from the ache of deeply personal, yet all too common experiences-the poems in Daughter of Breath will help you: create space to name what aches and to grieve the harm that has been caused you. reclaim your divinely given identity as Beloved, just as you are. move into ...

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by Dani Marie (Author)This poetry book is a collection from throughout the years during the passing of the authors parents from her father in 2019 to her mother in 2023. These poems discuss the grief and depression that follow, and the slow acceptance that starts to happen over time. Number of Pages: 52 Dimensions: 0.11 x 8 x 5 IN Publication Date: February 26, 2025

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by Charles Martin (Author)A rich collection of poems inspired by the Persian lyric tradition.In The Khayyam Suite, acclaimed poet Charles Martin explores both the profound and the personal in verse that celebrates the spectrum of human experience. At the heart of this collection is a study of the Rubaiyat, the renowned poem cycle attributed to the Persian poet Omar Khayyam. Martin pays homage to Khayyam's classical Persian poetic form--the ghazal--by infusing it with contemporary sensibilitie...

Haven: An Anthology of Love & Loss - Paperback

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by Jennifer Sims (Author)I build a havenaway from the painI live in silenceaway from the hurtDark forms reach for meI lieI cry for safe prayersaway from my sicknessPositivity falls from meI wonderI die for desire of loveaway from being aloneBut I live- J.S. Number of Pages: 90 Dimensions: 0.24 x 8 x 5 IN Publication Date: September 25, 2020

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by Mp Carver (Author), Eileen Cleary (Editor), Martha McCollough (Designed by)"Rich people spend their money / on other money. / I spend my money on string, colorful string"-- How can poetry about poverty and the injustices of late-stage capitalism contain so much joy? How can poems court absurdism without cynicism? How can poetry be both empathetic and irreverent? I wish we all knew what M.P. Carver knows. -J.D. Scrimgeour, Salem, MA Poet Laureate, author of Lifting the Turtle Number of Page...

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by Ibe Liebenberg (Author)Ibe Liebenberg's first book-length collection of poetry, Birds at Night, explores themes of loss, trauma, PTSD, indigeneity, and familial relationships. These brief, intense poems amplify the sensations and silences of interior moments of crisis and catharsis. A haunting meditation on what keeps us up at night, Liebenberg invites the reader to contend with their own responses to exigent circumstances. Drawing on the resiliency of the natural world in the face of chan...

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by Tyler J. Thompson (Author)Back to the Garden is an emotional, spiritual and observational journey through Tyler J. Thompson's mind and heart poured straight out onto the page. Through poetry and free flow, the author vulnerably gives the reader a look into his heart and mind as he speaks of hope and change for the human condition. Number of Pages: 292 Dimensions: 0.66 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN Publication Date: December 01, 2022

The Night Torn Mad with Footsteps - Paperback

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by Charles Bukowski (Author)This collection of previously unpublished poems offers the author's take on squabbling neighbours, off-kilter lovers, would-be hangers-on, and the loneliness of a man afflicted with acute powers of observation. The tone is gritty and amusing, spiralling out towards a cock-eyed wisdom. Number of Pages: 360 Dimensions: 0.95 x 9.02 x 5.92 IN Publication Date: June 27, 2023

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by Grant Snider (Author)"A poetry-filled graphic novel that is powerful in its simplicity." ―Publishers Weekly, Starred Review "Personal but personable, too, with glints of quiet humor." ―Kirkus Reviews, Starred Review "Poetry Comics is . . . a sensorial experience that taps into what it means to be human and leaves you inspired to explore, discover, create, and connect." --Aron Nels Steinke, Eisner Award-winning cartoonist From the creator of Incidental Comics, Grant Snider, comes a fun and...

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by Alison Thumel (Author)"When he died, my brother became the architect of the rest of my life," writes Alison Thumel in Architect, which interweaves poems, lyric essays, and visual art to great emotional effect. In this debut collection, the buildings of Frank Lloyd Wright become a blueprint for elegy, as Thumel overlays the language of architecture with the language of grief to raze and reconstruct memories, metaphors, and myths. With obsessive and exacting focus, the poet leads us through ...

Near Your Mirror Home (Stay On) - Paperback

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by Paolo Javier (Author)The dualities in Paolo Javier's deceptively slim new volume of poetry span the formal and topical, featuring a serial poem that revels in/reveals the slipperiness of desire and separation from place and language in the Dreaming, and a long poem that roars at white supremacy, misogyny, and horizontal hate in our nightmare moment of late US American empire. Oneiric and concrete, modular and incantatory, Near Your Mirror Home (Stay On) takes readers on a voyage to its dep...

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by P?draig ?. Tuama (Author)Written by the engaging host of the popular show, Poetry Unbound, the poems of Kitchen Hymns are finely honed melodies of survival--shaped with both humor and anger, force and conviction.Pádraig Ó Tuama's Kitchen Hymns opens with a question: "Do You Believe in God?" -- but the bee, "gone extinct," cannot answer, and the grass calls believe "a poor verb." This collection trades belief for language, and philosophy is grounded in form and narrative. Kitchen Hymns is s...

New and Collected Hell: A Poem - Hardcover

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by Shane McCrae (Author)Shane McCrae, "peer to the peerless" (New York Journal of Books), takes up and turns on its head the mantle of Dante in this contemporary vision of Hell. Of death the muse is death the muse of HellIs death the muse of Heaven I don't knowO muse of where howcan I hope to goTo where I pray I'll go sing at least tell Shane McCrae, one of the most prophetic and powerful poetic voices of our time, has created a twenty-first-century epic in New and Collected Hell. As David Wo...

Vocabulary Lessons: In Love & Limerence - Paperback

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by Flor Ana (Author)Here is every cavity-every artery-of my heart, displayed for the hearts still longing to feel some semblance of love. For those who believe that LOVE still matters, I lay my longing on this written platter.In her sixth poetry collection, Flor Ana diverts from her nature-driven imagery to present a work that explores the tender and bold facets of love and limerence. Serving as a companion to The Truth About Love, Vocabulary Lessons offers a dictionary of terms that delves i...

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by L. E. Bowman (Author)L.E. Bowman's latest collection Shapeshifter aches with the soft sorrows and hard-won joys of life.Melodic and introspective, Bowman's poems converse--struggling with grief and hopelessness while fighting for love and recovery. Shapeshifter grounds the reader in the body, ever transforming with age and experience. Reckoning with self-image, heartbreak, and motherhood, this collection emphasizes the beauty in mundanity--the journey that is life. Bowman's Shapeshifter em...

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by Nancy Viera (Author)Reclamation by Nancy Viera is a powerful and deeply intimate collection of poems and reflections that delve into themes of identity, resilience, healing, and love. This evocative work captures the journey of reclaiming oneself in the face of generational pain, abandonment, and personal loss. Each poem offers a glimpse into moments of vulnerability and strength, inviting readers to reflect on their own stories of survival and self-discovery. Number of Pages: 94 Dimension...

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by Mary Ruefle (Author)Following the acclaimed Dunce, which was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, comes Mary Ruefle's latest prose publication The Book, now in softcover.True to its bold title, The Book affirms Mary Ruefle's legacy as (dubbed by Publishers Weekly) "the patron saint of childhood and the everyday." With the same curiosity found in Madness, Rack, and Honey and My Private Property, Ruefle's prose here feels both omniscient and especially intimate. "It seems I believe in a bygone...

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by Nora Hikari (Author)Still My Father's Son by Nora Hikari weaves a complex & delicate tale of love, religious trauma, queerness, and self/selves. As we are systematically walked upstream through a shimmering river in which shrewd emotion and aching observations cascade, we bear witness to God & the lessons of his son, Uriel; to the speaker declaring that "Every person you have been deserves a burial and a headstone;" to the Vicious Self pleading to the Small Self, repeatedly through...

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by Brad Leithauser (Author)MacArthur Fellowship-winning poet Brad Leithauser returns with his first new collection in more than a decade, a collection that recalls the delicacy and intimacy of his early, award-winning volumes, and embraces the wisdom of age. As snappy as a dinner jacket's red silk lining, as appealing as a piano interlude in jazz, Brad Leithauser's robust felicity is a balm in grim times. It's also the perfect vehicle for nostalgia, regret, and surprise, forces that animate h...

Wise Up! Wise Down!: A Poetic Conversation - Hardcover

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by John Agard (Author), Jonarno Lawson (Author), Satoshi Kitamura (Illustrator)Funny, thought-provoking, and bursting with curiosity, Wise Up! Wise Down! is a lively conversation between two internationally known poets, illustrated by acclaimed artist Satoshi Kitamura. How can laughter be more powerful than a sword? Why do days have names but not weeks? And do pigeons ever get a craving for cake? Two friends, esteemed poets John Agard and JonArno Lawson, take us on an inspiring, hilarious, an...

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by Mai Der Vang (Author)Mai Der Vang's poetry--lyrically insistent and visually compelling--constitutes a groundbreaking investigation into the collective trauma and resilience experienced by Hmong people and communities, the ongoing cultural and environmental repercussions of the war in Vietnam, the lives of refugees afterward, and the postmemory carried by their descendants. Primordial is a crucial turn to the ecological and generational impact of violence, a powerful and rousing meditation...

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by Reginald Dwayne Betts (Author)Reginald Dwayne Betts is our foremost chronicler of the ways prison shapes and transforms American life. In Doggerel, Betts examines this subject through a more prosaic--but equally rich--lens: dogs. He reminds us that, as our lives are broken and put back together, the only witness often barks instead of talks. In these poems, which touch on companionship in its many forms, Betts seamlessly and skillfully deploys the pantoum, ghazal, and canzone, in conversat...

Love Is a Dangerous Word: The Selected Poems of Essex Hemphill - Paperback

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by Essex Hemphill (Author), John Keene (Editor), Robert F. Reid-Pharr (Editor)For three decades, the legacy of writer, editor, performer, and activist Essex Hemphill has been lovingly sustained through xeroxed copies of his few published works. They are as potent now as they were in the 1980s. With tenderness and rage, Hemphill's poems unflinchingly explore the complex, overlapping identities of sexuality, gender, and race, the American political landscape, and his own experiences as a black ...

If I Could Choose a Best Day: Poems of Possibility - Hardcover

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by Charles Waters (Author), Irene Latham (Author), Olivia Sua (Illustrator)An ode to imagination and the power of "if," this exhilarating poetry collection features the voices of thirty-one diverse poets. If I could choose a best dayit would be sunny it would be summer and I would be with you. Imagine what you could do with if. Build a tree house, ride your bike back in time, catch a firefly like a tiny star in the palm of your hands and let it go to make a wish--anything, when it starts wit...

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by Tiana Clark (Author) Number of Pages: 112 Dimensions: 0.4 x 8.9 x 6.8 IN Publication Date: March 04, 2025

Up Close and Personal: The Poems and Photographs of Arnold David Richards - Paperback

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by Arnold D. Richards (Author)It is hard to define what poetry is but one thing is certain: the experience of reading a poem should not leave you cold. A poem may be the artful arrangement of words on a blank page but some emotion must be aroused in the reader. Up Close and Personal by Arnold Richards suggests that spontaneity and intimacy are the poet's goal: the poems must appear to be casual when in fact they have been carefully constructed. "Art abhors the confessional" Richards says: he ...

Useless Magic: Lyrics and Poetry - Hardcover

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by Florence Welch (Author)Lyrics and never-before-seen poetry and sketches from the iconic musician of Florence and the Machine Songs can be incredibly prophetic, like subconscious warnings or messages to myself, but I often don't know what I'm trying to say till years later. Or a prediction comes true and I couldn't do anything to stop it, so it seems like a kind of useless magic.Author BiographySince forming Florence + The Machine in 2007, Florence Welch has written three albums, Lungs, Cer...